CVE-2007-6437

N/A Unknown

Published: December 19, 2007 Modified: April 23, 2026

Description

Balabit syslog-ng 2.0.x before 2.0.6 and 2.1.x before 2.1.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a message with a timestamp that does not contain a trailing space, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/Dec/0202.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/28118

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/28279

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/28372

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/28483

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-19.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://securitytracker.com/id?1019105

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1464

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.osvdb.org/39551

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485181/100/0/threaded

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26897

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4257

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426173

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39082

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00606.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00610.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/Dec/0202.html